Weatherproof socket for incandescent electric lamps



No. 626,588.. Patented lune 6, |a99..

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WEATHEBPROOF SOCKET FOB INEANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

(Application filed Jan. 3, 1899.)

(-No Model.)

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR cfibd- [Dig/A WHLDO c. BRYANT BY f6, M I M MHiSATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VALDO C. BRYANT, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

WEATHERPROOF SOCKET FOR INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

SPEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,588, dated June 6,1899.

Application filed January 8, 1 8 9 9.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALDo O. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing in Bridgeport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, haveinven ted an Improved VVeatherproof Socket for Incandescent ElectricLamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a Weatherproof socket for incandescent electriclamps designed to secure simplicity and strength of construction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of myimproved socket. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the terminalsremoved, and Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the socket.

The body A of the socket is made of some suitable weatherproofinsulating material, such as porcelain, and is in the form of a cylinderopen at one end, a, and closed at the other end, B. In the closed end Iform one or more openings or passages b for the terminal wires to beconnected to the socketterminals. In Fig. 1 I have shown socketterminalsof the Edison type. ,In the bottom B are also formed two openings forthe passage of screws S S, which are to secure the metal cup-base G tothe insulating-body A. These screws pass up through openings in the cup0 on opposite sides of the usual threaded nipple c. In the bottom 13,within the interior of the bodyAand around the openings for the screwss,are formed polygonal openings 1) for Serial No. 700,959r (No model.)

the reception of correspondingly-shaped securing-nuts n. The threadedends of the screws 8 screw into these nuts. After the terminal rings orcontacts for the lamp-base have been put into the described socket andthe wires connected to said plates I pour in from the back someinsulating material, as indicated by black section, when the socket isheld nipple uppermost. This insulating material when it has hardenedserves to hold the terminal contacts with their connected wires in placein the socket.

' An annular groove 9 is formed in the inname to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' WALDO o. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

F. WARREN WRIGHT, HUBERJ. HoWsoN.

